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Painkiller

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. An agent, such as an analgesic drug, that relieves pain.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. A drug that numbs the pain in the body

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. A medicine used in to relieve pain.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. a medicine used to relieve pain

Word Usage

"•Clemens says: He's never wanted to put anything harmful in his body and was troubled when he heard Vioxx, a painkiller from the pharmaceutical company Merck, may lead to heart attacks and had been taken off the market in 2004."

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

medication medicinal drug medicament medicine

Cross Reference

analgesic

Hyponym

hydromorphone phenylacetamide colchicine panadol phenaphen

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

analgesic anodyne pain pill

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

tranquilizers depressant sedative anodyne antibiotic